the support and enlargement of the western territories. Your CACTI is a very 

 good work and the Coniferae must be grateful to you who works so carefully on 

 systematizing them. It would make me very happy to see the collection ofParry 

 and Engelmann's work on the Conif Bor. Americ .In the Nov. 1862 issue of 

 Am. J. Sei. I found the most recent commentary by Asa Gray, this wonderful, 

 energetic man. It would make me very happy ifyou could put aside as complete 

 as possible a suite for me when you put a collection together. I cannot offer you 

 an equivalent in Herbaria unless you want some Alpina Germanica( ofbrasil. 

 There is hardly anything left) but I think I can put together for you from Single 

 parts ofFI. Brazil some fascicles that would catch your interest; so for example 

 the newly published Arancacia, Podocarp.Gnetaceae. You must however give 

 me a Channel through which I can send your package. I do not like the idea of 

 one-sided charity. Ifyour dear brother is in Charge have him give me his address 

 and the time he mails your packages. 



Ahr. Braun holds the Standard for the morphologists in Germany. Several 

 othergood men also represent German systematic Classification. But the 

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